Sid y Nancy

by Gerald Cole, Antonio Mauri (Translator)

Genres: Crime

218 pages, Paperback

Published April 18, 2006

About the author

Gerald Cole is a writer and freelance journalist who specializes in DIY, home design and construction. He is a contributor to Build It magazine.

Cole has been the editor of SelfBuild & Design magazine. His work has appeared in The Daily Telegraph Sunday Magazine, Reader's Digest, Ideal Home, She and Kitchens, Bedrooms & Bathrooms. He has published 13 books, including novels, film novelizations, biographies, a how-to book, and a YA novel.

Reviews

[Julie · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'm not quite sure what to say about this. I first read it when it came out in the mid 80s so this is my second reading of it. The book of the film which goes by the same name. The story of Sid Vicious, notorious punk from the band the Sex Pistols and his girlfriend Nancy Spungeon, an American wild child. Having read Nancy's biography written by her mother previous to reading this, I can look behind the picture painted by this book. Nancy was a deeply troubled person, right from her birth so her behaviour may not be all it seems here. Also I dont know how much of this book is artistic licence, how much is embellished or indeed how much is perhaps just their wild lifestyle which consisted mainly of drug taking and looking for drugs. It's a sad story. Two wasted lives, both dead by 21, Sid by an overdose and Nancy by a stabbing in the infamous Chelsea hotel, New York. Her death will always remain partly a mystery of what exactly happened. Was it an argument, did she goad Sid into stabbing her, was it a suicide pact gone wrong? We'll never know the answer to that unfortunately.

[Hugh · Rating 3 out of 5]

Channels the Oldman Sid reasonably well, and I don't think Oldman did an altogether bad job of it, for all the film's flaws, so... OK